Nacional Stadium (Portugal)

National Stadium Sporting Complex

A view of the National Stadium, from the one of the endzones
Full name	Complexo Desportivo do Estádio Nacional/Complexo Desportivo do Jamor
Location	Algés, Linda-a-Velha e Cruz Quebrada-Dafundo, Oeiras
Coordinates	Coordinates: 38°42′32″N 9°15′39″W / 38.708768°N 9.260859°W / 38.708768; -9.260859
Owner	Portuguese Football Federation
Field size	105 by 68 metres (344 ft × 223 ft)
Surface	Grass
Construction
Broke ground	1939
Opened	10 June 1944
Renovated	September 2012
Architect	Miguel Jacobetty Rosa
Tenants
Portugal national football team S.L. Benfica (2003)

The National Stadium Sporting Complex (Portuguese: Complexo Desportivo do Estádio Nacional/Complexo Desportivo do Jamor), also known as Jamor Sports Complex, is a former-national football ground used by the Portuguese national team, situated in the civil parish of Algés, Linda-a-Velha e Cruz Quebrada-Dafundo, in the municipality of Oeiras, in the western part of Lisbon District.

In 1933, the decision was made to construct the national stadium alongside the Jamor ravine. The original design was authored by Francisco Caldeira Cabral and Konrad Weisner and Jacobetty Rosa, with working beginning in 1939.

It was inaugurated on 10 June 1944 (Portugal Day) by the Council president António Oliveira Salazar.

Work was complete in the Quinta da Graça (in 1953), to install the Comissão Administrativa do Estádio Nacional (National Stadium Administrative Commission).

In 1961, construction on the hippodrome began, in addition to the first phase of work on the shooting range, by the Serviços de Construção e de Conservação (Construction and Conservation Services).

The Plano de Ordenamento do Complexo Desportivo da Jamor (Jamor Sports Complex Development Plan) was issued on July 1982, ordered by the DGEMN Direção-Geral de Edifícios e Monumentos Nacionais (Directorate-General for Buildings and National Monuments), authored by the architects Vasco Croft (coordinator), Nuno Bártolo and Joaquim Cadima, and by the landscape firm Professor Caldeira Cabral, Associados, Estudos e Projectos, Ld. (under the direction of landscape architects Francisco Caldeira Cabral and agronomist engineer João Caldeira Cabral. During this phase, diagnostic studies were performed to reformulate and re-evaluate the strategic importance of the complex.